emotional structure, the transformational character arc, and developmental edits

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Bodily functions

...I know everyone has them, but is it just me? I always wondered at women who used the phone while they were on the toilet--nothing like bombing Berlin while talking to your boss, or doing the techni-colored yawn with a Bluetooth. But I'm slowly formulating Jodi's theory of Audio-tolerance.

Everyone I've seen recently has been wearing a headset. They're 4.99 at Office Depot. (with a 35 dollar mail-in, of course) So...now that we're comfortable talking in public, about nothing in particular, about stuff other people wished they didn't know--are we creating a tolerance for narrating bodily functions?

And I'm not talking about bean vapor, but the real deal.

At Target I was trapped between two women launching an air attack. Not content with talking while..you know, they were doing their best to communicate with their bombardiers. I always thought it was a guy thing. Any gender capable of playing Battleship in public is more than capable of turning what should be internal dialog into Toolman-style grunts. But theses were actual sentences with action-reaction, and resolution.